Cost Management Overview

The Cost Management area of XAUTOMATA provides tools to import, organize, and analyze cloud cost data.

This area is designed to support both operational cloud cost monitoring and customer-defined analytical accounting models.

Cost Management Workflow

The cost management process is based on three main steps:

Cloud Cost Registration
Cloud provider accounts are registered in the platform so that billing data can be retrieved.
Raw Cost Data Import
The platform imports raw billing data from the configured providers.
Cost Organization and Analysis
Imported resources can be manually organized through Cost Views and then analyzed through dashboards and widgets.

The Cloud Cost Registration section allows administrators to configure access to supported cloud providers, such as:

These configurations enable XAUTOMATA to retrieve cloud billing data directly from provider APIs.

Cloud providers typically return billing data in a technical, provider-oriented structure.

This raw data may include information such as:

Although useful for technical analysis, this structure does not necessarily match the customer’s internal organizational model.

To support analytical accounting, XAUTOMATA provides Cost Views.

A Cost View is a customer-defined structure used to manually organize cloud resources according to business or accounting criteria.

This allows customers to transform raw provider billing data into a structured model that reflects their own needs.

For example, costs can be organized by:

Once the cloud cost data has been imported and organized, it can be analyzed through two different perspectives:

Cloud Cost widgets
Focused on direct analysis of imported cost data, trends, breakdowns, forecasts, and anomalies.
Analytical Accounting widgets
Focused on customer-defined cost structures created through Cost Views.

Together, these tools provide both operational visibility and accounting-oriented cost analysis.